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JACOB STREIOI-IER, VALENTINE HOEHL, AND BERNARD HOLZ, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK; SAID HOLZ ASSIGNOR TO SAID STREIOHER AND HOEHL.

MEAT-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,114, dated September 12, 1882. Application tiled June 12, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom itmcy concern Be it known that we, JACoB STREICHER, VALENTINE HoEHL, and BERNARD HOLZ, the two tirst eitizensotl 'the United States, and the latter, BERNARD HOLZ, asubje-ctot' Germany, all residing at Buffalo, in the county ot'Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Meat-Outters, ot' which the following is aspecication,

1o reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. f

This invention relates to machines for cutting fats, pork, Cac., into cubes or rectangular pieces for use in sausages, &c., and 'for other i5 purposes; and the invention consistsin its coni struction, by which two frames holding a series of knives are made to cut across each other, one set of knives having a vertical movement and the other set a longitudinal movement in zo close proximity to each other, b v which four cuttings are made at each-revolution of the working handle and shaft, and which also carries a single knit'e that cuts ott' the cubes as they come through the interstices of the series of knives.

` It also consists in an outside adjustable gageplate for regulating the length of the pieces of fat, all as fully hereinafter explained.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front eleva- 3o tion, showing the frame and the two sets of knives, the large cutting-ott` knife in dotted lines; Fig. 2, a top plan, and Fig. 3 side view or elevation.

A A represent the main frame, usually cast in one piece and carrying the working parts, and which will be clamped or screwed to a table.

B isasupplemen tary frame attached to main frame A,and in which the knife-frames C and 4o O' work, which carry each a series of parallel knives, c Ac c a., which are long thin blades confined in said frames,and1nerely represented in the drawings by straightlines, the knifeframe C moving vertically up and down and frame C' horizontally across the front ot' O. There is nothing' new in a series of parallel knives. A double action is got from each set ot knives by the connections of their frames with the operating-shaft, as follows:

D is the main shaft, revolved by the crankhandle D', and which goes through frame A and through an attached sleeved journal A', forming part ot' frame A. On the end of this shaft D is set a cog-wheel, I), meshing into a cog-wheel, @.just beneath it, and which is onehalf the size of b, and which is set on a shaft,

d, which also runs in frame A, and also in an attached sleeved journal, A", forming part ot' frame A. (See Fig. l.) The crank d' on the end of shait d is connected to a short link or 6o strap, c, pivoted to it. The other end of said link is pivoted by a pin,f, to au upright lever or operatingarm, E, and which is itself' pivoted to the horizontal knife-frame G' at g, (see Fig. 1,) and which it pulls back and forth. At its Lipper end it is again pivoted at h to frame A, and there bends over t'ormingarui E', its end provided with a slot, i, (shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1,) in which sets a pin, lo, which is attached to top of Aknife-frame C, and by this 7o means said frame is pulled up and down. The frame O has side vertical guides, m m, and frame O' horizontal guides n n, which all run through proper bearings in the frameBto keep the movement steady. By these simple devices the knife-frames (and knives) are operated and the cutting ofthe fats, Src., into rect angular pieces is accomplished. In addition,

a large flat and curved knife, G, (dotted in Fig.

1, and the back shown in Fig. 2,) is rigidly 8o fastened by its sleeve G' onto main shaft D outside ot' frame A, which is operatedby the crank-handle D', and every time it revolves the edge, coming close to the frame C', cuts oi`1c the fat pieces, as they emerge from the interstices of the knives a. c a, into the required lengths, the length being regulated by a fiat piece ot' metal, H, set in front ot frame O' this side ot' knife G, (see Figs. 2 and 3,) and which forms a gage. rlhis is set 011 a rod, p, 9o at one corner of the main frame A, (or other convenient place,) and by means ot" a set-screw, s,through the sleevet of the gage H regulates the length otall the rectangular pieces, and which are instantly cut ofi' by the constant rev- 95 olution ot' knife G, the fat pieces striking against the gage andv the knife G, cutting all ot't close to the frame (and knives) C, as before stated. l

The whole operation is the fat in lumps, 10o

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dac., is fed into an attached trough, I, by the left hand of the operator, who pushes it through the knives a a d a as they work both ways, he turning the crank-handle D at the same time with his rightliand,\vhich operates the knives a a a a and their frames C and C', the large knife G making one eut to every two cuts ot' each of the frame-knives a a a a.

The whole machine is simple and very effective. It is small and, as Compared with others, quite inexpensive. It can be set on any table, the fat cubes falling into any receptacle below. It can be run by power, it' desired, by merely putting a pulley on main shaft D instead of by the crank-handle.

We make no claim to the knives, but only to the means whereby we operate them and get a double movement from each seth We claim- In adevice for cutting fator other substances into cubes or rectangular pieces, the combinatio'n of the frames A and B with the knife- 'rames C and C', with their parallel knives a a a, and the operating devices consisting ot' shafts D and d, cog-wheels b c, crank d', link e, upright lever and arm E E', the former pivoted to knife-frame C at g and to frame A at h and to knife-frame C at k by slot i, and with the revolving cutting-knife Gr, rigidly fastened to shaft D by sleeve G', all arranged and operating substantially as specified.

In testimony whereofl we afx our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JACOB STREICHER. VALENTINE HOEHL. B. HOLZ.

Witnesses:

G. H. KELLOGG, J. R. BRAKE. 

